Just as an experiment to see if it makes any difference, try LW 4.1.4 beta . Doing so has solved a number of other people's problems. Sometimes a specific version of LW doesn't run well on a specific computer configuration, yet the previous or next version runs perfectly. If you want to find out more about LW 4.1.4 before dwnlding it, see: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27366 & the additions & improvements over the present version. Hope this helps.